We are about Marcellus Shale in Western Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Our region has many concerned citizens who are deeply concerned about the negative effects of Marcellus Shale. On Facebook we are called Moon Township Marcellus Shale.

“…we have sev­eral for­mer “psy-ops” folks that work for us here at Range because they’re very com­fort­able in deal­ing with local­ized issues and local gov­ern­ments,” said Pitzarella at an indus­try con­fer­ence held in Hous­ton last week.

On tape, Pitzarella is heard say­ing the mil­i­tary “psy-ops” spe­cial­ists mostly help write local ordi­nances. He says they devel­oped their tech­niques in the Mid­dle East.

Pitzarella tells State Impact Penn­syl­va­nia that his com­ments were taken out of con­text. He says the employee ref­er­enced has a mil­i­tary back­ground, and expe­ri­ence dis­cussing emo­tion­ally charged issues. Pitzarella says his main mes­sage to con­fer­ence par­tic­i­pants stressed the impor­tance of dia­log and transparency.